Forest Song

Forest Song

Lean back easy to the soil
let your elbows root
watch the clouds go by
for a few weeks.

Curl, wrap around a stump
reach your fingers to the sky
when it rains you can
open your eyes.

Stay, wait until it’s cold,
blossom underneath the waning
moonlight, where the
hemlocks come to sing.

Here, deep inside the night
listen for the creek
in the Earth where the
memories fit together.

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Copyright © 2009 Jade Leone Blackwater
www.jadeleoneblackwater.com

The Festival of the Trees 18 is Sprouting at Riverside Rambles

Larry Ayers of Riverside Rambles has spared no small effort in composing this month’s Festival of the Trees 18 - November Arborea. Watch it grow! There’s plenty to play with already online, and Larry is composing (composting?) the rest as we speak.

The Festival of the Trees is a monthly blog carnival featuring posts about trees and forests from blogs across the Internet. Check out the Festival of the Trees coordinating blog to learn how to share your own submissions, or volunteer to host a future festival at your blog!

Moon in the trees

Moon caught in the trees
playing hide and seek with me
between branch and cloud

Feeling lyrical...

Oh mystery tree,
big evergreen
what do you think
when you look at me?

I hear you singing
all night long;
wonder at your
whispering song.

Upon your branches
birds alight,
they emerge from rain
to dance for their food,

while you, sweet mystery
stand on with pride
extending your fingers
long and green.

Outside my window,
the squirrels nitter
looking in at me
with deep perplexion;

they ask, ‘why do you
hide in there,
with a great loving tree
so cozy out here?’

© 2006 JLB

Transcience

In light of the earthquake affecting people in the India-Pakistan-Kashmir regions, I would like to share the following:

Transcience by Sarojini Naidu http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/naidu01.html#2

Note: Transcience is the second poem on the page.

Second note: I had to look up ashoka. Here's a good picture that came from a quick google:

http://www.geocities.com/indiatrees/ashoka.jpg

Trees sans migraines

It must be great
to be a tree
who never has migraines
quite like me!